# Have any Dopers died?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 26, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-dopers-died/70222 "2001-06-26T17:55:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-dopers-died/70222/41 "2001-07-01T20:22:19Z")

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I live in El Paso, Texas. Does that count?

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**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-dopers-died/70222/42 "2001-07-05T06:45:15Z")

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Re spending a year dead for tax reasons, I remember that from Hitchhikers Guide. But what or who is ruttles?

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-dopers-died/70222/43 "2001-07-06T12:29:09Z")

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were a parody of the Beatles, put together by a bunch of inventive minds, including a number of Python and SNL folks. The “Prefab Four” were the subject of a 90-minute ‘documentary’ that was on network TV in the spring of 1978. I think it’s available on VHS.

They released an album at the same time, which I’m glad to say I have a copy of. It includes parodies of their songs from “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” to “I Am the Walrus”. Imagine

“I am he  
as you are he  
as you are me  
and we are all together”

transmuted into

“I know you know  
what you know  
but you should know by now  
that you’re not _me_”

and you get an idea of its pleasant lunacy.

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-dopers-died/70222/44 "2001-07-06T19:52:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Manservant Hecubus \*  
> \*\*I know one who wishes. \*\*

Only one?

Anyone remember [**hope**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=8613)? She was my neighbor before I moved back in with my parents. I introduced her to the message board, but she got less than 20 posts under her name before she killed herself. No big “Goodbye hope” thread because, with the short amount of time she spent here, I figured no one would know who I was talking about anyway.

[Her last post, 08-10-00.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=647658#post647658)

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